TP Task Two – Active Learning Environments

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Planning activities that allow students to clarify, question, apply, and consolidate new
knowledge.
What is an active learning environment? What are its benefits? How does it link to the inquiry
cycle?
"Active learning" means students engage with the material, participate in the class, and
collaborate with each other. Also, students demonstrate a process, analyze an argument, or
apply a concept to a real-world situation.
Reference
https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/learning.../promoting-active-learning

Choose 3 lessons to observe to answer the following questions:

What was the activity?
Write own story by using Their
favorite character.
Find real things of 3D shape in
classroom
created big sample of old house in
the yard of school.
What was the prior
What was the impact of the activity
learning to this
i.e. no. of ss engaged?
lesson?
Students know The students were enjoying
Transition Words. through write their own story with
they were drawing their character.
The students know The students were engaging to
3D shapes looking the objects as look like 3D
shapes and they found a lot of
them.
The students have The students were excited when
knowledge old they created house from grass and
house from what wood by teacher’s help.
made.

CONCEPT ROLE IN ACTIVE One Reference from 2015 forward that shows what
LEARNING the concept is AND how it works in Active Learning

STUDENT The focus of instruction

https://www.educationcorner.com/developing-a-student-
 CONCEPT ROLE IN ACTIVE One Reference from 2015 forward that shows what
LEARNING the concept is AND how it works in Active Learning

CENTRED is shifted from the centered-classroom.html

teacher to the student,
with the end goal of
developing students who
are autonomous and
independent, by placing
the responsibility of
learning in the hands of
the students.
INQUIRY CYCLE Starts by posing
questions, problems or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry-based_learning
scenarios—rather than
simply presenting
established facts or
portraying a smooth
path to knowledge. The
process is often assisted
by a facilitator.
PROCESS SKILLS
HANDS-ON The majority of the https://uakron.edu/cpspe/agpa-k12outreach/best-
MINDS-ON activities that kids teaching-practices/hands-on-minds-on-learning
perform should be
physical explorations.
Physical explorations
not only make the
concepts more tangible
but also appeal to
children's diverse
learning styles and take
advantage of their multi-
sensory strengths. If
children are physically
involved, they are more
apt to be mentally
engaged.
CONSTRUCTIVISM Constructivism is a
sydney.edu.au/education_social_work/learning_teaching/ict/.../constructivism.shtml
learning theory found in
CONCEPT ROLE IN ACTIVE One Reference from 2015 forward that shows what
LEARNING the concept is AND how it works in Active Learning

psychology which
explains how people
might acquire
knowledge and learn. It
therefore has direct
application to education.
The theory suggests that
humans construct
knowledge and meaning
from their experiences.
PROBLEM Problem solving https://medium.com/@MatthewOldridge/what-do-we-
SOLVING approach means using mean-when-we-say-teaching-through-problem-solving-
problems, questions, or in-mathematics-classrooms-ae1893d66be9
tasks that are
intellectually
challenging and invite
mathematical thinking
through both
mathematical content
and mathematical
processes in our
students.
BLOOM’S http://www.fctls/CourseDesign/BloomsTaxonomy/
TAXONOMY Developed to provide a
common language for
teachers to discuss and
exchange learning and
assessment methods.
Specific learning
objectives can be
derived from the
taxonomy, though it is
most commonly used to
assess learning on a
variety of cognitive
levels. The table below
defines each cognitive
level from higher- to
 CONCEPT ROLE IN ACTIVE One Reference from 2015 forward that shows what
LEARNING the concept is AND how it works in Active Learning

lower-order thinking.
ESSENTIAL & Guiding
GUIDING questions provide focus https://sites.google.com/a/rsu13.org/regional-world.../writing-
essential-questions
QUESTIONS and direction in
answering the essential 1.
questions and are linked
to the specific region or
time period being
studied. Both essential
and guiding
questions define key
instructional content and
assist students and
teachers in
understanding what is
important to teach and
to learn.
SEQUENCING OF Sequence Activities is
ACTIVITIES the process of https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/a-guide-
to/9781935589679/sub6.3.xhtml
identifying and
documenting
relationships among the
project activities. The
key benefit of this
process is that it defines
the logical sequence of
work to obtain the
greatest efficiency given
all project constraints.
ASSESSMENT evaluation, and one type
of assessment is used to https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/assessment
measure what someone
knows or has learned.
Tests and term papers
can be assessment tools.
More than just students
are given assessments.
Which activity engaged most students? Why do you think this happened? How could the activity
be improved to further increase student engagement?

Talk about everything in ‘active learning’ table above e.g. hands on minds on; inquiry, problem
solving, process skills, essential and guiding questions etc
Created big sample of old house in the yard of school. The students were amazing to know how
old people made their house. Also, they created by themselves so they got the steps and
materials.

Record and reflect on the safety components of at least 3 lessons taught whilst on TP.:
All equipment was not harm such
as, magnets, grass, sand and
What safety issues were taken into consideration?
soil.so, teacher and I ask them to
don’t play or put it in their mouth.
Yes, they use all materials and
Were the students made aware of them? How?
equipment as we order.
Did any safety issues arise in the lesson that were not No
planned for?
Is there signage in the classroom regarding safety? No